• James Cavanagh is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology

  • He directs the Cognitive Rhythms and Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico Department of Psychology and he mentors several graduate students. 

  • Cavanagh received prestigious awards to include the Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research and an NIMH Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) RO1. 

  • His current projects include frontal theta as a mechanism of cognitive control, distributed sources of the Reward Positivity EEG feature, and cross-species translation of electrophysiological markers of cognitive function. 

  • He has written and co-written several publications regarding research about psychophysiological research. 

  • Cavanagh received his doctorate in Cognition and Neural Systems at the University of Arizona, his M.A. in Psychophysiological Research from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in Sociology from Western Michigan University. 

Areas of Interest
EEG Signatures of Frontal Cortical Function, Reward and Decision Making, and Computational Psychiatry.

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